The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Triumph of Music, sentence 96
Tears welled up even in the eyes of the beasts and the birds and fell like rain upon the leaves and the grass and the gray sand by the shore.
Who acts: Tears · What happens: well up, fall · To what, where: eyes, leaves
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Triumph of Music. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tears), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 welled | nsubj |
| 2 | welled | well | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 welled | compound:prt |
| 4 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 eyes | advmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eyes | det |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 welled | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 beasts | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beasts | det |
| 10 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 birds | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 birds | det |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 eyes | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fell | cc |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 welled | conj |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 rain | case |
| 17 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 leaves | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 leaves | det |
| 20 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grass | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 grass | det |
| 23 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaves | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 sand | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 sand | det |
| 26 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sand | amod |
| 27 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grass | conj |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 shore | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shore | det |
| 30 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 welled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | well up | past | Tears | the eyes of the beasts and the birds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Tears not said here | the leaves and the grass and the gray sand | like rain; by the shore | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon leaf=Location |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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